plan (subs.) Copy link Outline I. Project, design1. consĭlium2. prōpŏsĭtum3. rătio (course of carrying out any enterprise)4. instĭtūtum (settled p. or course)II. Design of a building or work of art, etc.1. forma2. descriptio3. dēsignātio (like preced., strictly, the act of planning4. conformātio • plan (subs.): I. Project, design: 1. consĭlium: to form a p. to do something, c. capere, foll. by ger. part., Caes. B. G. 3, 2: less freq. with inf., ib. 7, 71: to abandon the p. of entering on war, c. belli faciendi abjicere (omittere), Cic. Cat. 2., 7, init.; c. repudiare, Ter. Andr. 4, 3, 18: to adhere to a p., in suscepto c. permanere, Cic. Off. 1, 31, 112. 2. prōpŏsĭtum: v. purpose. 3. rătio (course of carrying out any enterprise): your p. is to ..., tua r. est, ut ..., Cic. Verr. Act. 1, 11, fin.: this is usually my p. in speaking, mea r. in dicendo haec esse solet, id. de Or. 2, 72, 292: for the present he abandons his p. of ..., in praesentia r. omittit ... (with ger. part.), Caes. B. C. 1, 30 (where consilium might have stood equally well; not in preced. exx.). Join: ratio viaque, Cic. Verr. 5, 1, 4. 4. instĭtūtum (settled p. or course): in pursuance of one's p., i. suo, Caes. B. G. 1, 50: Cic. II. Design of a building or work of art, etc.: 1. forma: he designed a new p. for the buildings of the city, f. aedificiorum urbis novam excogitavit, Suet. Ner. 16: Vitr.: Gell.: cf. Cic. Fam. 2, 8, f. reipublicae, quale aedificium futurum sit. So of literary works to depart from the p. of a work, formam propositi operis excedere, Vell. 2, 16, init. 2. descriptio: a ground-p., formae in solo areae d., Vitr. 1, 2, 3: the site and p. of a city, (urbis) situs et d. aedificiorum, Cic. Agr. 2, 16, init.: Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 13. 3. dēsignātio (like preced., strictly, the act of planning: also the design itself): the entire p. of the whole fabric, omnis totius operis d., Cic. N. D. 1, 8, fin.: Vitr. 4. conformātio: Vitr. 5, 6, init.: for which, also, dispositio, id. 5, 9, extr. Phr.: a p. (elevation) of the front of a building, frontis imago modiceque picta operis futuri figura, Vitr. 1, 2, 2: the p. of a Greek theatre is in some respects different, in Graecorum theatris non omnia iisdem rationibus sunt facienda, Vitr. 1, 7 (8), init.: to exhibit different p.s of baths, depictas in membranulis varias species balnearum ostendere, Gell. 19, 10, med. (where immediately afterwards forma is used, as the more technical expr.): to draw a p., designare, describere. v. foll. art.